Re: Military time (whoops!)

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

David wrote,
Re Cantor's proof: are you referring to (but not mentioning!)
diagonalization?

Yep. (Although that's not the only proof, the general method Cantor
used has gained the honorific "diagonalization". In latter guises,
it re-emerges (Patricia, do I need a hyphen there?) as various fixed
point theorems.

When I read, years ago, the diagonalization thing, I had an objection to
it, but when I went back over it, still some years ago, I couldn't remember
it. It was perhaps the kind of "crank" objection you refer to, having to do
with what I thought was an illicit or equivocal use of " . . . "

Boy, are we off-topic, big time.


Harry Binswanger
hb@xxxxxxxx